Minister for Innovation, Science and Technology

The Innovation, Science and Technology is a minister in the New South Wales Government and has responsibilities that includes all schools and institutes of higher education in New South Wales, Australia.^[1]

Minister for Innovation, Science and Technology
Incumbent Anoulack Chanthivong since 5 April 2023
Premier's Department
Style	The Honourable
Appointer	Governor of New South Wales
Inaugural holder	Charles Cutler (as Minister for Science)
Formation	13 May 1965

The ministers manages the portfolio through the Premier's Department.^[2] Ultimately, the ministers are responsible to the Parliament of New South Wales.

There have previously been ministers responsible for Science, Innovation and Technology; however the combined ministry was first created in December 2021 in the second Perrottet ministry.^[1][3]

List of ministers

The following individuals have served as the Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology, or any precedent titles:

Title	Minister [3]	Party		Ministry	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
Minister for Science	Charles Cutler		Country	Askin (1) (2) (3) (4)	13 May 1965	19 June 1972	7 years, 37 days	[4]
Minister for Technology	Pat Hills		Labor	Wran (2)	19 October 1978	29 February 1980	1 year, 133 days	[5]
	Ron Mulock			Wran (3)	29 February 1980	2 October 1981	1 year, 216 days	[6]
	Pat Hills			Wran (4) (5)	2 October 1981	10 February 1984	2 years, 131 days	[5]
Minister for Small Business and Technology	George Paciullo			Wran (6)	10 February 1984	5 April 1984	55 days	[7]
	Eric Bedford			Wran (7)	5 April 1984	31 December 1985	1 year, 270 days	[8]
	Neville Wran				1 January 1986	6 February 1986	36 days	[9]
Minister for Energy and Technology	Peter Cox			Wran (8) Unsworth	6 February 1986	26 November 1987	1 year, 293 days	[10]
Minister for Information Technology	Kim Yeadon		Labor	Carr (2) (3)	1 December 1997	2 April 2003	5 years, 122 days	[11]
Minister for Science and Medical Research	Frank Sartor			Carr (4) Iemma (1)	2 April 2003	2 April 2007	4 years, 0 days	[12]
	Verity Firth			Iemma (2)	2 April 2007	5 September 2008	1 year, 156 days	[13]
	Tony Stewart			Rees	8 September 2008	4 November 2008	57 days	[14]
	Jodi McKay			Rees Keneally	4 November 2008	28 March 2011	2 years, 144 days	[15]
Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation	Victor Dominello		Liberal	Baird (2)	2 April 2015	30 January 2017	1 year, 303 days	[16]
	Matt Kean			Berejiklian (1)	30 January 2017	23 March 2019	2 years, 52 days	[17]
Minister for Better Regulation and Innovation	Kevin Anderson		National	Berejiklian (2) Perrottet (1)	2 April 2019	21 December 2021	2 years, 263 days	[18]
Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology	Alister Henskens		Liberal	Perrottet (2)	21 December 2021	28 March 2023	1 year, 97 days	[1]
Minister for Transport	Jo Haylen		Labor	Minns	28 March 2023	5 April 2023	8 days
Minister for Innovation, Science and Technology	Anoulack Chanthivong				5 April 2023	incumbent	2 years, 95 days

See also

• New South Wales portal
• Politics portal

• List of New South Wales government agencies